UKIP councilor ‘jokes’ that Remain voters should be killed

A London UKIP councilor faces a probe after “joking” on social media that people who voted to remain in the EU in last month’s referendum should be killed.

Terence Nathan, who sits on Bromley Council in southeast London, wrote on his Facebook page: “Time to start killing these people till Article 50 is invoked, perhaps remainers will get the message then.”

Nathan’s comments come just one month after MP and Remain campaigner Jo Cox was murdered on the steps of her constituency surgery. Her attacker, a former psychiatric patient, is believed to have shouted “Britain First” before carrying out the attack. Cox’s murder—the first killing of an MP in over 25 years—prompted widespread horror and a temporary suspension of campaigning for the EU referendum.